AP Highlights

On Thursday, June 26, 2025, the Averill Park Central School District’s Class of 2025 celebrated the District’s 94th Annual Commencement at the MVP Arena in Albany.

Additional information and photographs can be found here:

• Members of the Class of 2025
• Graduation Photos on the District Facebook Page

We would like to congratulate our newest group of Averill Park CSD alumni. Good luck in all of your future endeavors!

Algonquin Middle School closed out the year with its 8th Grade Moving Up Ceremony!

Students across all three Averill Park CSD elementary schools celebrated their Moving Up ceremonies — marking the end of an amazing elementary journey and the beginning of an exciting new chapter in middle school!

On this episode of the Every Student Every Day Podcast, Superintendent Dr. James Franchini welcomes some members of the Averill Park Central School District faculty and staff who are retiring this year, including Melissa Weatherwax, Katherine Eagan, Denis Sibson, Lorna Otty, AnnMarie Medici and Bray Engel. Click here to listen or find us wherever you listen to podcasts, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and more. Just search for "Every Student Every Day".

Algonquin Middle School's eighth grade students celebrated the end of the year in style with a picnic complete with kickball, tiger ball, and cold treats from the ice cream truck.

West Sand Lake Elementary School students enjoyed the bounce house reward they earned by being Ready, Respectful, Responsible & Safe all year long!

Questar III BOCES: New Visions held its end-of-year ceremony at the Capital Region Arts Center in Troy. Averill Park CSD's own Kayden Amadon and Kaysie Lane celebrated their achievements with family and friends in attendance. Additionally, New Visions: STEM, Pathways in Education, and Visual & Performing Arts programs celebrated the following Averill Park CSD students during their 2025 send offs: STEM: Thomas Murray, Aidan Riley ; PIE: Pamela Berger, Maeve Clements, and Sophie Miller; VAPA: Ash Zimmerman. Eva Sollohub Lopez, Kayla Bradley, Rachel Strickland who completed the Questar III BOCES New Visions: Scientific Research and World Health program. Theodore Dangler, Lindsay Agro, Alexis Ames, Olivia Durocher, and Abigail Juneau celebrated the completion of the Questar III BOCES New Visions: Medical program

Our youngest learners wrapped up a wonderful year with smiles, songs, and a celebration! We’re so proud of our kindergartners and all they’ve accomplished. Here's to a bright future ahead—first grade, here they come!

The annual Senior Dinner Dance was held for the APHS Class of 2025.

Jacob Phelps and Lizzie Hansen were honored at the Suburban Council Excellence in Leadership Awards Dinner!

Mrs. DeMerchant's second grade class enjoyed learning about making healthy choices from West Sand Lake's very own Mr. Matt. Mr. Matt also shared with the class what his role is as food service provider at the school and how he plans and makes the delicious lunches he cooks and serves to the students each day.

District and High School administrators visited Mr. Duff and Mr. Miller’s Introduction to Video Game Development class to play the student-created video games!

Biology students at Averill Park High School spent their last day together reviewing and enjoying the beautiful morning outside. Students used sidewalk chalk to brainstorm and illustrate key concepts by unit.

Beginning Monday, June 30, 2025, the summer construction phase of the Capital Project work commenced at Miller Hill-Sand Lake, Poestenkill, and West Sand Lake Elementary Schools, as well as the George Washington School. During this phase, there will be no community access to any of these buildings. If you need to contact your respective building principal, please do so via email and they will respond as soon as possible. The District will update the community on the progress of the Capital Project work throughout the summer months.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR: Fall sports start dates have been released

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Website: averillpark.k12.ny.us
Location: 146 Gettle Road, Averill Park, NY, USA
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AverillParkCentralSchoolDistrict/
Twitter: @AverillParkCSD